Material Acceptable for Publication
Manuscripts/Articles:
African and African American genealogy, cultural traditions, and philosophy; | |
Resources and Methods of research in Africa; | |
African Writings; | |
Colonial Rule of Africa (17th & 18th Century) and African Resistance; | |
African Kingdoms; | |
Documentation of African Oral Traditions; | |
Documentation of African American families; | |
Ancestry charts, Family group record sheets, personal family papers; | |
Miscellaneous topics of interest to the African ancestored researcher. |
Abstracts:
Census Transcriptions (federal, state, county and city); | |
Church Histories and Membership Records (baptism, burials, marriages, and dismissals) | |
City Directory Data; | |
Court Records (guardianship, intestate estates, wills, inventories, probate, sales, etc.); | |
Deeds or Bills of Sale of Slaves; | |
Freedmen’s Cohabitation and Marriage Certificates, Bonds, and Licenses; | |
Manumission and Freedom Certificates; | |
Missionary and Benevolent Society Records; | |
Impressment and Indenture Records; | |
Military and Pension Records; | |
Newspaper Transcriptions; | |
Plantation Family Papers Relating to Slaves; | |
Tax Lists Naming Free Blacks or Slaves; | |
Voter Registration Lists. |